Recycling schemes and outlets
Outside of Hillingdon's recycling collections, there are lots of schemes and channels to recycle or donate unwanted items.
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Drop off coin button, household domestic, rechargeable batteries and electric-bike batteries in recycling bins across the borough.
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Includes old mascaras, empty toothpaste tubes, finished lipsticks and empty vitamin pots.
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Give your bras a new lease of life and help raise funds for research into secondary spread breast cancer.
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Donate clothes, books, DVDs, CDs, furniture and even bubble wrap to your local charity shop.
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Recycle your used takeaway cups at a number of places across the borough.
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Take your used corks to a Majestic store, who will pass them on to the Eden Project to use to enrich soils and protect roots.
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Repair electrical items that are broken or not working as well as they used to.
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Recycle your old (and used) inhalers and medicine blister packets.
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Take your empty perfume bottles to The Perfume Shop for recycling.
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Recycle your used Tassimo, Nespresso and NESCAFÉ Dolce Gusto coffee pods.
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Recycle old printer cartridges at selected libraries
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Get an old bike repaired or serviced, donate an unwanted bike or buy a new or restored one.
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Drop off crisp packets, bread bags and carrier bags.
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Recycle crisp tubes, sweet packets, toothbrushes, contact lenses and other packaging waste.
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Donate clothes, shoes, hats, belts, scarves and bed linen through Hillingdon's textile recycling banks.
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Donate unwanted good quality household items and electrical items to this local charity that collects items for free.